B.C. steel company see major business spike after Kelowna fires - constructconnect.com

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Kelowna-based BC Steel Ltd., a full-service company that engineers, designs and builds prefabricated steel buildings, has seen a 50 per cent increase in calls since the West Kelowna and Scotch Creek fires razed homes and buildings. “We are getting at lea

September 22, 2023

“We are getting at least 20 calls a day and growing,” said Darryl Williams, company president. “There is almost a sense of panic. People are worried about their house, their barn where they keep their horses or their two-car garage.” Williams said steel structures have always provided protection against traumatic events but last year he introduced the concept of Fire Safe, a design and building process that focuses on making structures – ranging from residential to industrial applications – more fire resilient.

“We know that basic steel won’t burn,” he said and it requires a high temperature over a longer sustained period in a fire to buckle.“The paint can’t catch fire and neither can it propagate the fire,” he said. “Where the metal meets the ground or foundation, there is fire or smoke interface. The insulation used in the buildings is non-combustible. We never use spray foam .”

 

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